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Tank
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Tank is a 1984 action-dramedy film starring James Garner (from The Great Escape and The Rockford Files primarily, but also the antagonist of Atlantis: The Lost Empire), Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family; Oklahoma!) and C. Thomas Howell (Red Dawn (1984)), and also James Cromwell (Babe, Star Trek: First Contact, The Green Mile, Space Cowboys, The Sum of All Fears, I, Robot, The Longest Yard and Surrogates) and G. D. Spradlin (The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now) as The Dragon and the Corrupt Cop, respectively.Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank. | |
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Dropped link to Dramedy: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to LockAndLoadMontage: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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http://data.linkedmdb.org/resource/film/4603 | |
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http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tank_(film) | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer basically tells the whole story. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Sgt. Major Zack Carey to his kid, and to other people's kids. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Shown zealously earlier on, then taken up to eleven later. | |
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Dirt Forcefield | |
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Dirt Forcefield: Works on Bill's skin, but not his clothing. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: The biker gang decides to commandeer some heavy cable and a bulldozer in order to pull the tank over the state line. The driver of the cable truck comes up: | |
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Was It Really Worth It? | |
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Was It Really Worth It? | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: The governor of Tennessee (the state to which Sergeant-Major Carey and his tank are trying to escape) faces one when confronted with the question of whether he'll fight Carey's extradition. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Sheriff Buelton, oh so very much, especially when showing Carey the work farm and just twisting the knife and gloating about the power he holds over him. This makes his Humiliation Conga all the more sweeter. | |
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Military Maverick | |
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Military Maverick: Subverted; Zack is all for keeping the peace in the armed forces. Before he goes on his road trip, he resigns from the army, meaning it's now a strictly civilian matter. The army can't get involved. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Kangaroo Court: The "trial" that Carey's son gets: In only a few hours the defense attorney is found in contempt of court and jailed, Carey's son is arraigned, tried, and sentenced to years of prison on felony drug charges, and immediately shipped off to prison later that same day. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Sheriff Buelton refers to Carey’s friend Tippet (who is black) as “boy” and advises Carey against getting “some Jew lawyer” to help Billy, among other slurs. | |
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Vanilla Edition | |
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Vanilla Edition: Loading this DVD into your player's tray is like inserting a VHS tape into your VCR. There isn't even a menu. It just starts playing the movie. | |
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Prison Rape | |
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Prison Rape: Implied that this will happen to Bill. | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Sarah. | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
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Humiliation Conga: The second half of the film pretty much amounts to this for Sheriff Buelton, starting with his office being flattened by Zack's Sherman and ending with him landing face-down in the mud. | |
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Small-Town Tyrant | |
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Small-Town Tyrant: Sheriff Buelton. He frames Carey's son for drug possession and cheating him out of his retirement money and forcing him to sell his recently-purchased boat. | |
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Military Brat | |
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Military Brat: Bill and (the dead) John. | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Carey forces Euclid, Buelton's cretinous deputy, to strip naked in public after he destroys the sheriff's station. The townsfolk find it hilarious. | |
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Wife-Basher Basher | |
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Wife-Basher Basher: Zack informs one of his subordinates in explicit terms that he can't beat up his wife, he needs to get counseling, and if he does it again, nothing, not the stockade or loss of his pension, will stop him. "I will destroy you in place." | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: When Euclid emerges from inside the sheriff's station to find himself staring down the Sherman's barrel. | |
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Good Policing, Evil Policing | |
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Good Policing, Evil Policing: The climactic scene has the corrupt sheriff see that the folks of a neighboring county are helping to pull Sergeant Major Zack Carey and his son Billy out of a mud flat. Not wanting to lose his fugitives, the sheriff orders his men to "fire into the crowd!" The neighboring deputies are honest, and won't stomach their unarmed citizens coming under fire. The honest deputies level their firearms at the sheriff's forces, and warn that firing into the crowd would turn the affair into "another Little Big Horn," with Buelton most likely playing the part of Custer. Zack and Billy make it over the county line into the custody of non-corrupt law enforcement. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Sergeant, that's the best fuckin' apple cobbler I ever tasted." And in a PG movie, too. note Since the PG-13 rating designation had not yet been instituted, the movie was originally rated "R" by the MPAA, then later changed to a "PG" rating after a successful appeal. | |
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Anti-Vehicle | |
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Anti-Vehicle: A Panzerschreck, a German anti-tank rocket launcher from World War II, is brought in by one of Buelton's posse to stop Carey's tank. | |
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Officer and a Gentleman | |
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Officer and a Gentleman: Zack Carey is this in spades when he quietly asks for Deputy Euclid to stop slapping around Sarah and proceeds to beat him up when he just continues beating her up. He also disciplines one of his subordinate for beating up his own kid. | |
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CorruptCop | |
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Corrupt Cop: Sheriff Cyrus Buelton. And everyone else. | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: It's in the name. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm: When Sheriff Buelton approached the General to request military support in apprehending Zack, only for the General to incite the Posse Comitatus Act. Buelton is initially confused when he said it, believing that he was calling the Sheriff a "Pussy Communist". | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece: The titular tank is a fully-functional, fully-armed World War II era Sherman tank that Sgt. Carey and his two sons Billy and Johnny had restored on their own time with resources from his base's motor pool. Buelton returns the favor with a fully functioning and firing Panzerschreck, easily capable of penetrating the Sherman's armor. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Out Living Ones Offspring: Zack Carey's eldest son Jonathan ended up dying when he was in the army. His death deeply impacted the relationship Zack has with his remaining son Billy. While traveling through Tennessee, Zack ends up stopping at a backwood gas station, whose operator Mr. Gant had a nephew who was interred at The Farm by Sheriff Buelton on false charges and wound up dying. Gant sympathized with Zack and helped him out by refilling the Sherman. | |
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Good Ol' Boy | |
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Good Ol' Boy: Cyrus. The trope is even referenced by name. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Euclid and Sheriff Buelton slap around Sarah and beat her with a belt, respectively. It’s the former incident that triggers the events of the film. | |
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Corrupt Hick / int_b370c364 | |
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Good Policing, Evil Policing / int_b370c364 | |
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Tank | |
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Tank | |
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Wife-Basher Basher / int_b370c364 | |
| Tank (Music) | seeAlso |
Tank |
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